Oswald Chambers Quotes

We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.

Oswald Chambers

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• Beating Pakistan is always special because they are a tough team and we have a bit of a history regarding Pakistan.

  

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• I'm not just a model who plays volleyball, or a volleyball player who supports herself modeling. I'm a female athlete personality.

  

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• Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

  

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• I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• You know, people always ask, 'What are you like offstage?' And I always say, 'Well, I'm completely normal and mellow.'

  

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• The concept of monogamy is an inheritance of a medieval time, when family would carry the tradition of the name and certain privileges. It's a way of organizing society, perhaps.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Time
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• My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• I work in my attic, and the view is next door's chimney stack.

  

  Malorie Blackman
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• As an actress, vanity is your enemy. If you're thinking about how you look, you're not going to give a good performance. Once I realized, 'Hmm, I guess I'm not that vain,' it's like something I wanted to protect. I can't imagine anyone could give the full dynamic performance they're capable of and still be vain.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
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• I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.

  

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  • Smile

• The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

  

  Hannah Kearney
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• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
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  • Fame

• I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

  

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  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I did 75 films. I didn't take a break; I didn't spend my money. I have my savings, so when you're not working for money anymore, then you should find things that are meaningful and not just be like, 'OK, that's another day gone.'

  

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• You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

  

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  • Up
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• One problem with age is that patience begins to ebb.

  

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• I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.

  

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• India I have visited a great many times, though there is a lot about it I will never understand.

  

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• Growing up in the industry, sometimes you can feel as if you're not having a normal childhood, but I feel like my parents involved me with a lot of people who made things as 'okay' as they possibly could.

  

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• I've always thought that the most perfect fate which could befall any woman would be to be born a rich widow.

  

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• In our world, where hundreds of things distract us from God, we have to intentionally and consistently remind ourselves of Him.

  

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• Instant access to anything is the future. So if you need a tutor or a baby sitter or a massage or any service, it's going to be instantly available, 24 hours a day, through your phone, with one click.

  

  Jason Calacanis
  • Future
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  • Baby

• Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Prayer
  • Sin
  • Remembered

• We lean to our own understanding, or we bank on service and do away with prayer, and consequently by succeeding in the external we fail in the eternal, because in the eternal we succeed only by prevailing prayer.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Understanding
  • Service
  • Prayer